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CARES Act Provider Relief Fund: July 2020 Update

Since April 2020, many health care providers have received payments from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) in the form of general or targeted distributions. Many providers have questions about receiving and using these...more

Checklist - Disclosures for Health Care Providers With Outstanding Tax-Exempt Bonds

If your organization is a hospital, nursing home, life plan community, ambulatory surgery facility, or behavioral health provider with publicly held tax-exempt bonds outstanding, it is essential that you consider enhancing...more

FAQS - CARES Act Provider Relief Fund For Health Care Providers

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), signed into law on March 27, 2020, allocated $100 billion to the Provider Relief Fund (Relief Fund) designated for hospitals and other health care providers...more

Impact of COVID-19 Infection Control Policies on Senior Living Facilities and Suggested Actions for Providers

Normal life at all levels of senior living facilities has been impacted by COVID-19. Facilities from skilled nursing (nursing homes) to assisted living, independent housing and life plan communities are all experiencing...more

Considerations for Health Care Providers as Telemedicine Use Increases Due to COVID-19

Telehealth has been in existence for many years, but third-party payor limitations on reimbursement have limited its growth in hospitals and physician practices. Today’s challenges presented by the novel coronavirus are...more

Negotiation Tactics To Consider As Dispute Over Control Of EHR Brews In Milwaukee

A contractual dispute between an electronic health records (EHR) vendor and a federally qualified community health center based in Milwaukee over access to, possession of, control over electronic patient medical records...more

7/31/2013  /  EHR , Vendors

Homeless Readmissions In Los Angeles – A Community Acts

After years of planning and in response to the reality of cuts from Medicare due to excessive readmissions, more than 30 Southern California hospitals and health systems and other providers gathered on June 10, 2013 to kick...more

Large Educational/Health System Targeted For HIPAA Enforcement

Idaho State University (ISU) was recently the target of an investigation and enforcement action for violations of the privacy and security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)....more

Revocation Of EHR Certification Rocks Industry

The news from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) about the revocation of the electronic health record (EHR) certifications of two EHR products that had previously been certified will have tremendous...more

4/30/2013  /  Certifications , Decertify , EHR

The Omnibus Final HIPAA Rule Is Here

On January 17, 2013, the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the omnibus final rulemaking (Omnibus Rule). According to HHS, this Omnibus Rule is needed to strengthen...more

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